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Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Junior Historian chapters, and the number of young personswho are taking an interest in Texas history have increased. Dur-ing the past year the magazine contained nearly three times asmany pages as it did during the year before.From the Junior Historians of today must come the Associationmembers of tomorrow. Personally, I feel that the operation ofthe Junior Historian movement and the publication of the mag-azine is a just field of expenditure for the Association.Reducing the number of pages in the magazine would reducethe cost. Up to the present time, I have tried to publish in themagazine as far as possible every entry that was worthy of pub-lication because I felt that that much encouragement was duethe youngsters.To cut down the number of copies printed would cut costsso little as to be of almost no value.BOOK PUBLICATIONThe Association entered the field of book publication duringthe period of Professor Webb's directorship and has continuedit in a limited degree ever since.The primary purpose of the Association in book publishinghas been the preservation by publication of Texas material. TheAssociation has brought out books with an attitude of servicerather than as a money-making proposition. With only oneexception, the books thus far published by the Association .havebeen priced with a view of breaking even rather than makingmoney. The same general policy has been followed in selectingbooks for publication as has been followed in selecting articlesfor Quarterly publication. That is, the Association has endeav-ored to publish historically useful and sound books in the fieldof Texas history. There has been no attempt to emphasize anyfield, type, or region. Even more than in the Quarterly articles,availability has been, and must continue to be, an importantfactor. To date four books, Texas County Histories, Santa Rita,Charles Schreiner, General Merchandise, and History of thePresbyterian Church at Jefferson, have been published, with aprofit to the Association of $1,o61.31.The Association has not brought out a book during the past